Scows racing on the River Yar, Isle of Wight
Yarmouth Sailing Club scows are these days glassfibre-built, but the first scows were built in wood around 100 years ago in various places around the Solent including Lymington, Yarmouth and Bembridge. AA Coombes in Bembridge for example built over 200 wooden scows before the wooden classes began to decline in the 1980's. In the mid 1980's Alan Coombes took a mould from a Bembridge scow and made the first GRP scow and that is the mould used for YSC scows. Today therefore a GRP Bembridge scow and a YSC scow have the same hull and the difference is only in the rig with the YSC scows having a slightly larger & battened mainsail (identical to the West Wight scows) which was designed to cope better with the stronger tides in the western Solent. AA Combes have now built over 220 GRP scows which confirms the popularity and timeless appeal of the design which encompasses both traditional characteristics and ease of maintenance and reliability. The hull and rigs are all one design but boats are personalised through the hull colour, choice of gunwhale and sail design with many colourful stripes seen on the river.
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Location: River Yar at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Photo credit: © will Perrett / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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